Why use a Wiki? Before I began this course, I had LITTLE knowledge about what a wiki was and its possible benefit to the classroom. While I am still overwhelmed about the entire process, I have a slightly better understanding than I did prior to the start of the course. Incorporating technology into today’s classroom is vital to help prepare students for the world of tomorrow.According to Cummins, “schools are now expected to develop twenty-first-century literacy skills, which are what the economy supposedly requires to thrive in an increasingly competitive global marketplace. These twenty-first-century literacy skills are heavily dependent on mastery of new technologies.” When we as educators fail to learn and utilize new technologies we do our students a disservice in failing to prepare them for the world of tomorrow. While I am not totally comfortable with utilizing Web 2.0 and its new technologies, I hope with consistent practice and persistence to be able to help teachers utilize technology more and more in their classrooms. If we always do what we’ve always done, we will always get what we have always gotten. This can no longer be our mantra! We must either learn and move forward or become stagnate and be left behind. Cummins, J., Brown, K. & Sayers, D. (2007). Literacy, Technology, and Diversity: Teaching for Success in Changing Times. Boston: Pearson, Education, Inc.
Before I began this course, I had LITTLE knowledge about what a wiki was and its possible benefit to the classroom. While I am still overwhelmed about the entire process, I have a slightly better understanding than I did prior to the start of the course.
Incorporating technology into today’s classroom is vital to help prepare students for the world of tomorrow. According to Cummins, “schools are now expected to develop twenty-first-century literacy skills, which are what the economy supposedly requires to thrive in an increasingly competitive global marketplace. These twenty-first-century literacy skills are heavily dependent on mastery of new technologies.” When we as educators fail to learn and utilize new technologies we do our students a disservice in failing to prepare them for the world of tomorrow.
While I am not totally comfortable with utilizing Web 2.0 and its new technologies, I hope with consistent practice and persistence to be able to help teachers utilize technology more and more in their classrooms.
If we always do what we’ve always done, we will always get what we have always gotten. This can no longer be our mantra! We must either learn and move forward or become stagnate and be left behind.
Cummins, J., Brown, K. & Sayers, D. (2007). Literacy, Technology, and Diversity: Teaching for Success in Changing Times. Boston: Pearson, Education, Inc.